article thumbnail

How to Successfully Personalize Learning in Secondary Schools

Education Elements

Last year, a group of educators sat down with engineers from a well-known technology company. The first question the educators asked was what the engineers look for in potential candidates. The way these engineers code today is different than how they coded ten years ago and will be different ten years from now.

Secondary 195
article thumbnail

Making the Case for Transforming Summer School

Education Elements

Especially in secondary grades, the primary – if not exclusive – purpose of summer school is credit recovery. This question becomes even more salient as educators consider how to address the time students have lost with teachers and classmates because of COVID closures and challenges with distance learning.

Secondary 180
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Framework: Ed Elements Provides Model, Plan, Hand-holding

Edsurge

Separate from its Playbook that helps define a vision, Education Elements , a consulting firm, helps schools and districts design next-generation teaching and learning models. Download and examine Ed Elements’ three models for elementary schools and its three models for secondary schools. There’s more from Ed Elements.

article thumbnail

Communications Tips for School Leaders

Edsurge

Think about how to use Twitter, surveys, and town-hall style meetings for your communications. At a minimum you want to consider school leaders, teachers, students and parents but there may be more audiences to think about or more ways to split them up (for example you might want different messages for your secondary vs elementary teachers).

article thumbnail

Saturday is the Online Global Student Conference - "STEM + Entrepreneurship" (plus we make our call for volunteers!)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

by Simran Sehdev Grade: XI - Kamla Nehru Public School (India) Health Application using Sensors by Chloe Young with Aeron Young (8th Grade, Hwa Chong Institution) Grade: 6th - Temasek Primary School (Republic of Singapore, Asia) How high school students are already making a difference toward the detection of gravitational waves.

article thumbnail

How to Pick the Right Instructional Model for Your Classroom

Education Elements

To learn more about each of these in the elementary and secondary settings, check out these infographics: PL models for elementary classrooms & PL models for secondary classrooms. Let’s first explore where each model is most useful:

Secondary 154